May 5, 2010
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ding helped get the bill to a fina,
hearing and eventual passage.
Now praising Sachs for the bill’s
eventual adoption, he wrote, “I have
no right to take any [credit] on the
Rooney Rule [bill].”
Rep. Mitch Green,ick, a Portland
Democrat who was a primary spon
sor o f the bill, also said that he had
no direct contact with Cornett on
the issue.
The bill, which made Oregon the
first state in the union to have such
a requirement, passed both the Or
egon House o f Representative and
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Senate overwhelmingly.
M iller-Jones said that by that
People on both sides o f the time the bill was set for passage,
issue say PSD was neutral on the and the support from PSU m at
bill, citing concerns about a one- tered little.
size-fits-all m andate, until after it
In a later e-mail, Cornett main
passed the House and went to the tains that what he said was correct
S en ate. As the fin al h earin g from his perspective, and argues
approahced, Torre Chisolm , PSU that his behind-the-scenes work was
athletic director, then cam e out in instrumental in getting the bill
support.
passed in the final stages.
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